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Editor's note: "DP Buzz is an interactive feature of the Daily Press Opinion Page. We email weekly questions on issues and topics affecting Peninsula-area citizens. Each week, subscribers can choose whether to weigh in or not with a short answer. Here is a sampling; all responses are posted at dailypress.com/opinion. To receive DP Buzz questions, email mholtzclaw@dailypress.com with the subject "DP Buzz." This week's question: Should public schools require all students to be fully vaccinated? Absolutely, as even — or maybe especially — conservatives declare. A Wall Street Journal editorial said the "real public health problem isn't a lack of...

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Editor's note: "DP Buzz is an interactive feature of the Daily Press Opinion Page. We email weekly questions on issues and topics affecting Peninsula-area citizens. Each week, subscribers can choose whether to weigh in or not with a short answer....

After 22 years as a Navy JAG officer, Steve Stillwell is looking forward to settling down in his hometown of Williamsburg in a low-stress practice with plenty of leisure time.
He does not get his wish.
In David Grogan's novel "The Siegel...

When Ed Peeples was growing up in Richmond in the 1940s and '50s, segregation was not just a line, it was a solid wall.
In his memoir "Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism," Peeples tells the story...

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has recognized Bon Secours health system for a third year as "Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality".
Bon Secours received top marks for non-discriminaton and a commitment to inclusive care for LGBT patients...

When a Chesapeake defense contractor sought business overseas, it found a willing audience for its line of equipment for first responders. The next task was a bit more daunting: Translating its highly technical training manuals into Polish.
In Newport...

President Barack Obama signed an executive order Monday barring federal contractors from discriminating against gay employees and prohibiting discrimination against federal workers who identify as transgender.
"In too many states and in too many...

When I was attending Catholic grade school growing up, a common picture you would see in the classrooms was a picture of Jesus surrounded by children. Jesus was reaching out to touch one of them or he had his hand on one of their heads. The children...

A group of Ukrainian journalists visited the Daily Press earlier this month in an exchange program to see a U.S. newspaper in action.
During their time here, we took two of the Ukrainian journalists and an interpreter to tour the Hampton City Jail and...

Nancy Washabaugh returns the flag that covered her husband's casket to a shelf.
Mother and daughter discuss Floyd Washabaugh's life as a picture of Floyd and his daughter at Christmas flashes on a TV.
A no-visitor policy at the Hampton VA hospital...

Oklahoma would become the first state to allow the execution of death row inmates using nitrogen gas under a bill overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday by the House of Representatives. The House voted 85-10 for the bill by Oklahoma City Republican Rep....

One by one, thousands of mourners and dignitaries filed past the white-lined coffin of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov on Tuesday, many offering flowers as they paid their last respects to one of the most prominent figures of Russia's beleaguered...

LAGOS, Nigeria A party atmosphere descended on the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri as thousands lined the roads to welcome opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari with chants of "Only Buhari" in the Hausa language. ...

Award-winning American singer and songwriter John Legend took to the stage in Bahrain on Monday night, performing to a sold-out crowd of more than 2,000 people despite calls by some activists to cancel the concert due to concerns over human rights...

EU-Russian relations took a further dip on Tuesday when the European Union strongly condemned Moscow for banning Polish and Latvian lawmakers from entering the country to attend the funeral of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. European Parliament...

North Korea's foreign minister on Tuesday denounced criticism of Pyongyang's human rights record, dismissing a U.N. report that concluded crimes against humanity were committed there and telling the top U.N. rights body that the United States is engaged...

Gov. Mike Pence has ordered flags at state facilities across Indiana to be flown at half-staff in honor of the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. Hesburgh served as Notre Dame's president for 35 years before retiring in 1987. He advised world leaders on human rights...

Western values are a "ticket to hell," a newspaper published by China's Communist Party said in a recent editorial that held up Ukraine and some Arab countries as examples of outside ideas causing turmoil. It was the latest colorful example of a...

The 23-year-old Ukrainian model who was with slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov tearfully recounted Monday their last dinner in a chic Red Square restaurant and their walk onto a nearby bridge — but said she did not see the gunman who pulled the...

Backed by Iranian-supported Shiite militias, Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive Monday to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown from the Islamic State group, the first in a series of campaigns to try to reclaim large parts of northern Iraq from...

CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro stepped up his campaign against an "endless coup" he says exists against his government, ordering the U.S. to downsize its embassy in Caracas and detaining a U.S. pilot. The U.S. will...